The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-07-16
Armstrong said he didn't desire anything

Armstrong SAID he didn't desire anything
from the county attorney he deemed impru
dent 10 dlvulge; but he did want the com
III irtee appointed by the board to report
Lewis asked Mr. Moloney whether the
board could settle with the officers before
the conclusion of The suits threatened,
Moloney thought not, that IL, with any
advantage. Barrels bOnlsmen hal once
! offered TO settle Just as soon AS a conclusion
had been arrived NJ as to the amount due;
bu, on reconsideration preferred to let n
! Judgment be entered and so hold their prin.
cipal
! Lewis said he thought the board could
! settle aud leave the matter of prosecutions
to the county attorney II not. why nolY
Mr.. Moloney said he did not think set.
element could be made with Milligan outside
of court in his present temper. lie further
said he thought he had power to go ahead
and bring suits without further orders OF
the board, and NJ the October term he would
begin cviiactions TO recover against all who
we're in default. or their bondsmen.
Green then made some explanation Of the
! difficulties Oft work.
Armstrong thought the number of men to
| aid the attorney should be limited. lie did
no, think il was necessary to have the whole
county at work on those books.
Lewis SAID there was difference Of opin.
ION on this business But he didn care
about the cost-never complained about the
| bills or rvjo ccd over the amounts squeezed
ont of Niligan, but he did think the board
entitled to know what these men are about
outside of criminal business. The matter OF
! adjusting of amounts IL one that the board
| should know about: what officer is short
and how much. and further that the board
should have the III hit to say whether suits
should be Instituted or not and know, too,
before these suits were begun. The whole
BUSINESS is changing 50 often that no one
can tell how the hoard stands and instead OF
covering the matter up the investigators
! should make n report of their dOings and il
the committee do not the county attorney
should He hoped yet to fad that the otiic
ers indicted would be able to prove their
innocenc
Dwyer took exceptions to such a state.
ment He said Lewis didn't know anything
he was talking about, and when asked to
add column Of figures to find out, refused
TO do so; and, in short, Dwyer said some
| quite uncalled TOR things.
Lewis replied that Mr. Dwyer was moth,
ing if not personal, and after intimating
that his remarks we're swash, said he had
the ri ght to say he hoped the men under n
! cloud, who had been his friends for twenty
years. would yet be able to prove themselves
honest on trial when both sides have a
right TO be heard.
Norton, of course, followed Dryer, and
chopped onto" Mr.. Lewis in the same style.
When the row was all over the committee
said they deeply regretted" that anying
was wrong. They would rather lose right
arms, &c, nc, than to have found anything
wrong in any office, and brother Norton lay
back in his chair and perpetrated an enor
nous chuckle at his sagaciiy, and faint
denunciatiou Of any man who would dare
repeat the hope expressed by Lewis.
A resolution was then offered b. Maier.
hofer and adopted, that the ";ublic print
ing" be let to the lowest bidder among the
journals of Ottawa.
Thereupon the board adjourned.